These are the Surfers Going to Teahupoo for the Olympics

The 2024 Paris Olympics is coming up, and that means at least a few of the world’s best surfers will be staring down the reef at Teahupoo, Tahiti. After this month’s ISA World Surfing Games finished, we now know who will be battling for gold.

From China to Morocco, several new countries will be sending their best surfers to compete. From the 7th of July to the 4th of August, we’ll watch the world’s gnarliest left challenge the top competitors from around the world.

Surfers Qualified via World Tour

Through the stressful World Championship Tour schedule last year, dozens of the top performers locked in their spots. This includes world champs such as Filipe Toledo, John John Florence, and Carissa Moore.

Other surfers on the top of the leaderboard who qualified are for the women Molly Picklum and Tyler Wright from Australia and Caroline Marks from the USA. Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb and Costa Rica’s Brisa Hennessy are representing Latin America. Europe’s champions are Johanne Defay from France and Teresa Bonvalot from Portugal.

In addition to the world champs for the men are the USA’s Griffin Colapinto and Japan’s Kanoa Igarashi. Ethan Ewing and Jack Robinson are representing Australia and Jordy Smith and Matthew McGillivray are fighting for South Africa. The injured João Chianca will join Toledo to represent Brazil and Leonardo Fioravanti to surf for Italy.

ISA’s Newest Additions

Last year’s ISA World Surfing Games saw several names added to the list. For the women, New Zealand’s Saffi Vette and South Africa’s Sarah Baum were added. For Japan, Shino Matsuda made the cut and for Europe, France’s Vahine Fierro got the job done.

On the men’s side Alan Cleland Jr will be representing Mexico. Billy Stairmand will be surfing for New Zealand, Kauli Vaast for France, and Reo Inaba for Japan.

After the ISA World Surfing Games finished in Puerto Rico this year in 2024, these surfers joined the list: